ISBN:
0415318637
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (viii, 212 p)
,
24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
RoutledgeCurzon studies on China in transition 18
Parallel Title:
Print version China, Sex and Prostitution
DDC:
306.74/0951
Keywords:
Prostitution
;
Sex customs
;
China Social conditions
Abstract:
China, Sex and Prostitution is a topical and important critique of recent scholarship in China Studies concerning sexuality, prostitution and policing
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; China, Sex and Prostitution; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction: telling tales; In search of authentic native voices; Authenticity as academic capital; Another native voice: the alternative translator; Telling popular institutional tales; Reading 'China' differently; 1 Changing China: changing China studies; The impact of theory; Problematizing China studies; The uses and potential misuses of theory; Contemporary sinological studies revisited; 2 Changing institutional categories and academic legitimacy
Description / Table of Contents:
The ins and outs of the poststructuralist academeThe ins and outs of China studies; Sexuality is 'in' and sex is 'back' in China; 3 Feminist prostitution debates and responses; Prostitution and the new humanities; The development of theoretical approaches; Prostitution and 'the sex wars'; Feminist legal responses to prostitution; Transnational prostitution debates; 4 Prostitution debates and a changing China; Prostitution as a 'new' object of discourse in reform-era China; Responses to prostitution in reform-era China; Prostitution in reform-era China as an object of metropolitan discourses
Description / Table of Contents:
5 Re-situating the Chinese response to prostitutionThe feminists turn to human rights law; Governmentality: getting rid of 'the Chinese State'; The body of Chinese prostitution law; 6 Policing change: changing disciplinary technologies; Policing change: changing police; Changing police: policing prostitution; Policing prostitution: changing disciplinary technologies; 7 Conclusion: China, sex and prostitution reconsidered; China's response to prostitution reconsidered; Transnational prostitution debates reconsidered; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-208) and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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